Entrance of Superior Court of the District of Columbia Building A at 515 5th St NW Washington, D.C., DC 20001 . Antiwar demonstrators with their hands on their heads are led out of the police bus into the D.C. jail after their mass arrest during the 1971 May Day Protests in Washington DC against the Vietnam War. Demonstrators at temporary holding area near RFK Stadium look through window of a Hertz truck after mass arrest. Detained protesters shouting from behind 8-ft tall wire fence at an emergency detention center. Metropolitan Police in riot gear guard at the emergency detention center with hippie antiwar protestors. Camera zooms to a detained woman giving “the finger” from behind a chain link fence. More prisoners enter the detention center, with the other detainees inside cheering. Smirking demonstrators after mass arrest. View of the Washington Coliseum sign. Protestors sit inside the Washington Coliseum at 1140 3rd St NE, Washington, D.C., DC 20002 Trashed food on the floor. A man drinking water in front of a metal water jug. Detainees dancing together. Police booking detainees inside coliseum, many who refused to be identified. Photos of arrested on a table.
F-8E Crusader of the U.S. Marine Corps Squadron, VMF (AW) 232 (Red Devils) at Da Nang Airbase, Vietnam, being armed with rockets. A ground crewman wearing noise suppressor headset, gives hand and arm signals. The wing of the F-8E is raised to maximum lift position. Ground crewman enters under the tilted wing of F-8 and checks it. Pilots leave ready room in trailer and proceed to their aircraft. An F-8C Crusader takes off. A C-117 USMC transport plane takes off. (Vietnam War period).
United States Marine Corps pilot of Squadron VMF (AW) 232 (Red Devils), wearing flight suit and a red helmet, sits in the cockpit of an F-8E Crusader aircraft in Da Nang Vietnam. The name "Wheatley" is stenciled below the cockpit. The pilot raises two fingers to indicate start engine. Ground crewman wearing noise suppressor headset acknowledges with two fingers.Ground crewman collects gear pins. Another ground crewman pulls chocks, hangs them on a rocket tube, and signals for the pilot to taxi. He pulls the chocks off the rocket tube as the aircraft taxis past, with its wings folded. The pilot, Major Cronkrite, unfolds wings and taxis to join the other F-8E, piloted by Wheatley, on the active runway. (Note: On June 20, 1967 Major Charles Ligon Cronkrite experienced mechanical problems during a mission and ejected over water. He did not survive.) (Vietnam War period).
Operation Attleboro II, Dau Tieng Airstrip, Vietnam. Scenes of UH-1Ds' and UH-1Bs' helicopters flying. Soldiers of U.S. troops landing from the helicopters and walking away. C-123Bs' aircraft taking off from the runway. November 1966. (Vietnam War period).
French general De Lattre De Tassigny and Emperor of Vietnam Bao Dai inspect Vietnamese troops and tank units in Nhatrang Vietnam.Troops line up and salute. Vietnamese tank crew at attention. A yacht anchored offshore can be seen. The General, Emperor and other officials raise a toast on the yacht.
A U.S. Army 1st Air Cavalry Division soldier equipped with an E63 personnel detector manpack, advances through a jungle area during training in Ankhe, South Vietnam. He signals to his buddy, that his E63 is malfunctioning. He assumes an alert defensive posture, as his buddy opens the manpack and checks its internal components. Interior view of the E63 shows air transport fan and chemicals. (Vietnam War period).